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Introduction and Roadmap 1-1
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Introduction and Roadmap
This section describes the contents and organization of this guide—Programming RMI for Oracle WebLogic Server.
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Section 1.1, Document Scope and Audience
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Section 1.2, Guide to this Document
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Section 1.3, Related Documentation
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Section 1.4, Samples and Tutorials
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Section 1.5, New and Changed Features in This Release
1.1 Document Scope and Audience
This document is written for application developers who want to build e-commerce applications using Remote Method Invocation RMI and Internet
Interop-Orb-Protocol IIOP features. It is assumed that readers know Web technologies, object-oriented programming techniques, and the Java programming
language. This document emphasizes the value-added features provided by WebLogic Server and key information about how to use WebLogic Server features when
developing applications with RMI.
1.2 Guide to this Document
This document describes the Oracle WebLogic Server RMI implementation of the JavaSoft
Remote Method Invocation RMI specification from Sun Microsystems. The Oracle implementation is known as WebLogic RMI.
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This chapter, Chapter 1, Introduction and Roadmap,
introduces the organization of this guide.
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Chapter 2, Understanding WebLogic RMI, is an overview of WebLogic RMI
features and its architecture.
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Chapter 3, WebLogic RMI Features, describes the features that you use to
program RMI for WebLogic Server.
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Chapter 4, Using the WebLogic RMI Compiler, provides information on the
WebLogic RMI compiler.
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Chapter 5, Using WebLogic RMI with T3 Protocol, provides information on
using RMI and the T3 protocol.
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Chapter 6, How to Implement WebLogic RMI, provides a simple step by step
example of how to implement WebLogic RMI.
1-2 Programming RMI for Oracle WebLogic Server
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Chapter 7, Using RMI over IIOP, defines RMI over IIOP and provides general
information about the WebLogic Server RMI-IIOP implementation.
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Chapter 8, Configuring WebLogic Server for RMI-IIOP, describes concepts,
issues, and procedures related to using WebLogic Server to support RMI-IIOP applications.
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Chapter 9, Best Practices for Application Design, describes recommended design
patterns when developing RMI and RMI over IIOP applications.
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Appendix A, CORBA Support for WebLogic Server, provides information on
CORBA support for WebLogic Server.
1.3 Related Documentation
